Jaimie D'Cruz is a British documentary film producer and director. D'Cruz started as a music journalist, and founded the hip hop magazine ''TOUCH'', which he edited between 1990 and 1998. In 1998, he began to make TV documentaries for the British television station

Channel 4 Channel 4 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network operated by the state-owned enterprise, state-owned Channel Four Television Corporation. It began its transmission on 2 November 1982 and was established to provide a four ...

. His first documentary film not made for TV was ''

Exit Through the Gift Shop ''Exit Through the Gift Shop'' is a 2010 British documentary film directed by street artist Banksy. It tells the story of Thierry Guetta, a French immigrant in Los Angeles who, over the course of several years, filmed a host of street artists a ...

'', directed by

Banksy Banksy is a pseudonymous England-based street artist, political activist and film director whose real name and identity remain unconfirmed and the subject of speculation. Active since the 1990s, his satirical street art and subversive epigrams ...

and co-produced by D'Cruz with Holly Cushing and

James Gay-Rees James Gay-Rees is a British film producer. He has been involved in the production of numerous films, including critically acclaimed documentaries '' Senna'' (2010) and ''Amy'' (2015), for which he won numerous awards and nominations. Graduating ...

. In 2011, he co-founded alongside Francesca Newby an independent production company called "Acme Films" which specializes in producing films related to popular contemporary culture.

Filmography

;Director *2009: ''Chickens, Hugh and Tesco Too'' (TV documentary) *2011: ''The Antics Roadshow'' (TV documentary) *2016: Lawful Killing (feature-length documentary) ;Producer *2008: ''

Hugh's Chicken Run ''Hugh's Chicken Run'' is a programme as part of Channel 4's 'Food Fight' series in which celebrity chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall launched the campaign to encourage more consumers to demand free range chicken. Fearnley-Whittingstall was join ...

'' (TV series documentary) (series producer) *2008: ''River Cottage Spring'' (TV series documentary) (3 episodes) *2010: ''

'' (documentary) *2011: ''The Antics Roadshow'' (TV documentary) ;Executive producer *2011: ''

Life of Rhyme Life is a quality that distinguishes matter that has biological processes, such as signaling and self-sustaining processes, from that which does not, and is defined by the capacity for growth, reaction to stimuli, metabolism, energy tran ...

'' (TV documentary)

Awards and nominations

*2011: Nominated for "Best Documentary, Features" for the documentary film ''

'' (nomination shared with

Documentary.org: Meet the Academy Award Nominees: Jaimie D'Cruz--'Exit Through the Gift Shop'
/ref>) *2011: Nominated for "Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer" for the same film at the BAFTA Awards in 2010 (nomination shared with Banksy)

Notes and references

External links

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By Other Voices voices@moviecitynews.com – ''The Exit Through The Gift Shop Diaries'' by Jamie D'CruzInterview at DP/30 with ''Exit Through The Gift Shop'' producer Jaimie D' Cruz and editor Chris King
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